Vítor Baía on Mourinho at Porto: “We just stared… this guy’s mad!” | OneFootball

When José Mourinho returned to FC Porto after his stint at Barcelona, he coached Vítor Baía, who ended up meeting a… ‘different’ kind of coach. In an interview with ‘Expresso’, the former goalkeeper of the Dragons and the National Team highlights the central point of the difference that the current Benfica coach introduced to football.

“In that first half-year at FC Porto, we managed to qualify for the UEFA Cup in Paços de Ferreira and at the end of the match, he turns to us and says: ‘now we’re going to rest, we’re going to prepare well for next season and next year we’re going to win the UEFA Cup.’ And we just looked at him, like, this guy is crazy. Mourinho brought an incredible change to training. He compiled everything, sector by sector, set pieces, defensive transition, offensive transition. And he gave each of us a DVD with important points for each position, strengths and weaknesses of the opponents we were going to face, of the players who would be in each of our zones,” he said.

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